Encouragement is not just saying “good job” to a child, it is continually building a child. Children who feel good about themselves behave in positive ways. Here are some ideas to help us encourage these little people.Read more

Temperament, a valuable concept for parents, describes the differences in how children receive, digest, and express their experiences. Understanding each child’s temperament can show us how a child may handle new experiences and how he will respond to new challenges.
Temperament is made up of many factors: activity level, regularity, sensory, threshold, and mood. These traits are probably largely inborn.
“Differences in temperament, even at the extremes, are in the normal range of behavior. There is a ‘poorness of fit’ when the parent’s expectations are beyond the child’s temperamental abilities.” Stella Chess, MD Read more